Gary J. Miller, "Managerial Dilemmas: The Political Economy of Hierarchy"
English | 1993 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 0521457696, 052137281X | PDF | 28,5 mb
In organization theory a schism has developed between the traditional organizational behavior literature, based in psychology, sociology and political science, and the more analytically rigorous field of organizational economics. The former stresses the importance of managerial leadership and cooperation among employees, while the latter focuses on the engineering of incentive systems that will induce efficiency, and profitability, by rewarding worker self-interest. In this innovative book, Gary Miller bridges the gap between these literatures. He demonstrates that it is impossible to design an incentive system based on self-interest that will effectively discipline all subordinates and superiors and obviate or overcome the roles of political conflict, collective action, and leadership in an organization. Applying game theory to the analysis of the roles of cooperation and political leadership in organizational hierarchies, he concludes that the organization whose managers can inspire cooperation and the transcendence of short-term interest in its employees enjoys a competitive advantage.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 0691191107 | 273 pages | True PDF EPUB | 11.93 MB
How Tocqueville's ideas can help us build resilient liberal democracies in a divided world
How can today's liberal democracies withstand the illiberal wave sweeping the globe? What can revive our waning faith in constitutional democracy? Tocqueville's Dilemmas, and Ours argues that Alexis de Tocqueville, one of democracy's greatest champions and most incisive critics, can guide us forward.

B. Guy Peters, "The Next Public Administration: Debates and Dilemmas"
English | ISBN: 1446252892 | 2017 | 192 pages | EPUB | 931 KB
Written by two of the leading scholars in the field, this book explores public administration in the past, present and future, critically reviewing the modernization of public management reform. It reasserts public administration as an integral component of democratic governance and fostering a state-citizen relationship.

Antonio Calcara, "European Defence Decision-Making: Dilemmas of Collaborative Arms Procurement "
English | ISBN: 036742598X | 2020 | 166 pages | EPUB | 985 KB
This book comparatively examines the preferences of four key arms-producing states towards European joint armaments programmes.

Clinical Dilemmas in Primary Liver Cancer By
2011 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0470657979 | PDF | 4 MB
How do you look after the liver as well as the tumour? Is one scoring system in patient assessment more useful than another? Is microbubble ultrasound an advance in surveillance screening? Clinical Dilemmas in Primary Liver Cancer considers these and other questions in a highly practical, user-friendly format. Edited by Roger Williams and Simon Taylor-Robinson, two of the UK's top hepatologists and leading figures on liver cancer, this concise guide provides evidence-basedexpert guidance on subjects ranging from epidemiological risk factors and screening and surveillance strategies to diagnosis and treatment. Contributing authors, experts in particular areas in liver cancer treatment, know your daily clinical challenges because they share them. The six major sections of the book cover: · Learning from a worldwide perspective · Influence of tumour characteristics · Complexities of patient assessment and scoring systems · Choice of radiological diagnostic technique · Can treatment be tailored to the patient? · What does the future hold? Recent advances allowing early diagnosis and use of locoregional and systemic therapy, surgery, transplantation, and combination therapy may help to reverse the established pattern of patients presenting with advanced disease, and the authors carefully review these important developments. Clinical Dilemmas in Primary Liver Cancer is essential reading forall thoseinvolved in the care of patients with liver cancer, including established and trainee hepatologists and gastroenterologists, transplant surgeons,pathologists,and specialist hepatology nurses. Content: Chapter 1 Are Patterns and Prevalence Changing? (pages 1-10): Hashem B. El?SeragChapter 2 Why is the Tumour Different in Africa? (pages 11-17): Nimzing G. LadepChapter 3 Control by Vaccination: Asian and Taiwan Experience (pages 18-23): Jia?Horng KaoChapter 4 The view from the United Kingdom (pages 24-28): Shahid A. Khan, Mireille B. Toledano, Abigail Zabron, Mehtan Ahmed and Simon D. Taylor?RobinsonChapter 5 The view from the United States (pages 29-34): Hitoshi Maruyama and Arun J. SanyalChapter 6 New Challenges of the NAFLD and HIV Epidemics (pages 35-41): Quentin M. Anstee and Janice MainChapter 7 Controversies in Pathology (pages 43-52): Tania RoskamsChapter 8 Not to Forget the Unusual Tumour (pages 53-59): Bernard C. PortmannChapter 9 What can be Learned from Molecular Diagnostic Techniques and Genetic Signatures? (pages 60-64): Tariq Moatter and Saeed HamidChapter 10 Looking after the Liver as well as the Tumour (pages 65-72): Roger WilliamsChapter 11 Comparative Performances of Staging Systems for Hepatocellular Cancer: Early HCC Considerations (pages 73-80): Peter D. Peng and Timothy M. PawlikChapter 12 Rival Scoring Systems: Do they Offer more? (pages 81-90): Angelo Sangiovanni and Massimo ColomboChapter 13 Is it Possible to Detect Early Lesions Effectively? (pages 91-96): Ryota Masuzaki and Masao OmataChapter 14 What is the Value of Country?Based Surveillance Programmes? (pages 97-104): Peter OttChapter 15 Computed Tomography or Magnetic Resonance Imaging for the Diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (pages 105-113): Wladyslaw GedroycChapter 16 Is Microbubble Ultrasound useful? (pages 114-117): Adrian LimChapter 17 Value of PET Scanning (pages 118-123): Tara D. Barwick, Imene Zerizer and Adil Al?NahhasChapter 18 Who could Benefit from Chemoembolisation? (pages 125-135): Gisele N'Kontchou, Olivier Seror and Michel BeaugrandChapter 19 Are Drug?Eluting Beads Worth using? (pages 136-141): Christopher N. Hacking and Pradesh KumarChapter 20 What is the Future of Image?Guided Radiofrequency Ablation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma? (pages 142-148): Riccardo LencioniChapter 21 Alternative Ablation Techniques for Hepatocellular Carcinoma (pages 149-153): John KaraniChapter 22 Justification for Sorafenib and Chemotherapy (pages 154-159): Philip J. JohnsonChapter 23 When to Consider Surgery? (pages 160-167): Emmanuel Melloul, Mickael Lesurtel and Pierre?Alain ClavienChapter 24 Transplant Considerations (pages 168-175): Myron SchwartzChapter 25 Dipstick Markers for Diagnosis: Feasible or not? (pages 177-183): Mohamed I. F. Shariff and Simon D. Taylor?RobinsonChapter 26 Targeted Gene Therapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Reality? (pages 184-190): Christopher Binny, Marco Della Peruta and Amit C. NathwaniChapter 27 Is Immune Modulation a Possibility? (pages 191-198): Tim F. Greten and Firouzeh KorangyChapter 28 Systemic Therapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Future Directions (pages 199-211): Daniel H. Palmer and Matthew E. Cramp

Hanne Marlene Dahl, "Dilemmas of Care in the Nordic Welfare State: Continuity and Change"
English | ISBN: 0815388543 | 2017 | 218 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The Nordic welfare model has become an ideal in feminist literature and in welfare state studies. This has heightened scientific and political interest in the model and its key aspects, including the provision and production of care as public responsibility. In this engaging volume, contributors from various professional disciplines - including sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists and educationalists - provide a comprehensive overview of the complex state of paid work in social care within the Nordic welfare states and of the dilemmas facing state-provided care in the region. They develop insights into the conditions, practices and trends in the area of paid care in the social and health care sector, insights that expose the dilemmas and tensions associated with paid care and care education. Divided into four parts, the book will greatly interest academics, post-graduate students and professionals concerned with the Nordic model and welfare states. It will also benefit those from outside the region interested in a specific Nordic tradition of research on publicly-provided care and the current dilemmas and challenges facing training in care.

Francis Mading Deng, "Bound by Conflict: Dilemmas of the Two Sudans (International Humanitarian Affairs "
English | ISBN: 0823270785 | 2016 | 224 pages | EPUB | 1400 KB
Since its independence on January 1, 1956, Sudan has been at war with itself. Through the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) of 2005, the North-South dimension of the conflict was seemingly resolved by the independence of the South on July 9, 2011. However, as a result of issues that were not resolved by the CPA, conflicts within the two countries have reignited conflict between them because of allegations of support for each other's rebels.

Robots and AI: Illusions and Social Dilemmas Cartesian Illusions and Social Unsettling Questions by Daniel Albiero
English | EPUB | 2022 | 52 Pages | ISBN : 3030957896 | 0.2 MB
This book aims to critically assess the Cartesian stance that affirms robotic and AI technologies as candidates to supplant human capacities in non-routine intellectual nature activities based on social power relations. In the argumentation listed, the contradictions that this hypothesis approaches will be exposed, mainly in a historical and social analysis based on a complex and uncertain sociological perspective, added by a discussion within the scope of the Chaos theory. Finally, an outline of the current era, fostered by extremisms and extremists, will be described in terms of its contradictions in an attempt at sociological analysis. For this, some crucial and unsettling questions will be asked, and an effort to come up with answers will be made for some.

Norman A Graham, "The U.s. Exportimport Bank: Policy Dilemmas And Choices"
English | ISBN: 0367296780 | 2019 | 122 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book assesses the politics and programs of the U.S. Export-Import Bank and their relevance to U.S. trade policy. Focusing on the direct loan program for large credits with maturities of more than five years, the authors evaluate the broad criteria employed by the Bank in its decision-making process and the resulting allocation of Bank resources. They also examine the distribution of Bank loans and subsidies across industries and relate this to key industry characteristics such as comparative advantage and export dependence. The problems faced by the Eximbank in recent years―high borrowing costs, intensified export credit competition, limited resources, increased risks, conflicting mandates to be competitive yet self-sustaining -―have given tremendous importance to the careful articulation of policy and administration of programs. The authors find Bank policies to be broadly supportive of the U.S. trade policy goals, but also identify several areas of inconsistency and lack of definition and offer alternative means of specifying criteria to overcome these problems.

English | ASIN: B096YK51SM | 2021 | 8 hours and 15 minutes |MP3|M4B | 450 MB
The classic compilation of psychological case studies from a master clinician and lyrical writer. Each generation of therapists can boast of only a few writers like Deborah Luepnitz, whose sympathy and wit shine in her fine, luminous prose. In Schopenhauer's Porcupines, she recounts five true stories from her practice, stories of patients who range from the super-rich to the destitute, who grapple with panic attacks, psychosomatic illness, marital despair, and sexual recklessness. Intimate, original, and triumphantly funny, Schopenhauer's Porcupines goes further than any other book in illuminating "how talking helps".